How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Every morning the sun rises with a golden glow to reveal the ineffable magnificence of life.

It should be considered right to live and enjoy living. To be well, happy, and to express freedom, is to be in accord with Divine Law and Wisdom.

Seek knowledge, getting as much of it as you can and meditate on it, then you will become ahappy possessor of wisdom.

I’m not sure we’re quite the monsters you want us to be.

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

I just like having fun. And, you know, sometimes I just like to present myself in that fun energy.

Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!